Forum for Global Exchange

2016

Fourth World nations the world over are at the center of global events. Whether the topic is health and healing one finds the ancient knowledge of Fourth World nations in the center of the debate. If the topic is climate change or environmental protection, that Fourth World nations occupy territories on which 80% of the world's last remaining biodiversity are located nations hold the key to how to preserve life on the planet.
CWIS has begun to organize a coalition of Fourth World Nations under the leadership of the San Francisco Xochicoatla (Mexico) to work for the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Mohican Nation, Pequot, Lenape (US), Biafra of Nigeria, Qom of Argentina and Rohingya of Burma have joined to endorse the CWIS drafted Joint Statement of Constitutional and Indigenous Governments presented to UN Member states and Fourth World Governments worldwide.
Great power politics between states' governments most often have Fourth World nations at the center of contests over wealth and power. Their strategic importance in each locality far outweighs their size.When Fourth World nations engage each other or states' governments they are involved in a GLOBAL EXCHANGE. This program aims to facilitate the exchanges between Fourth World Nations and between these nations and the various international states.It is the prospect of dialogue and negotiations between Fourth World Nations and their neighbors that remains the focus of this program.

Purchasing prominent critics–willing to sacrifice their principles for profit and prestige–arbiters of power procure a useful veneer for the ruthless brutality of their masters. Securing the souls of former critics of the… more

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz has been corrupted by her affiliation with the Ford Foundation. She consequently supports Wall Street carbon market schemes like REDD, that displace Indigenous peoples worldwide. 44 murders of Indigenous… more

Glenn Greenwald interviews BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti about fighting Israeli apartheid in Israel, Europe and the US, and the growing racism by Zionists opposed to equal civil rights for Palestinians and to their human rights… more

The 'historic victory' for treaty rights is just the beginning of the fossil fuel export war between Coast Salish tribes and corporations like SSA Marine, BNSF Railway, Kinder Morgan, and British Petroleum. With Wall Street… more